Leaving their baby girl in a locked car in Dhenkanal town on Tuesday proved a couple dear as police registered a case against them on Wednesday.
The Dhenkanal Town police took suo motu cognisance of the incident and registered the case against the girl’s parents under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act and Sections 342 and 34 of IPC.
Notably, the one-and-a-half-year-old girl had been locked inside the car by her parents and was later rescued in a critical condition near the Dhenkanal District Headquarters Hospital.
Locals and security guards spotted the baby in the car in an unconscious state and rescued her after breaking the car’s windowpanes. The child was taken to the hospital for treatment.
The baby’s parents, residents of Ananda Nagar in Dhenkanal town, later reached the hospital and identified themselves as the father and mother of the child. “I had come to the hospital for ECG. We left the baby inside the car as she develoed fits,” said child’s father.